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A frontal cortical world model shapes inference of causal relationships in hippocampus

2026-07-17

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Causal reasoning, inferring what leads to what, is the foundation upon which animals and humans build their understanding of the world. Yet causal relations are rarely fully revealed; they must be inferred from incomplete and ambiguous observations. We propose that such causal inference operates through the integration of two complementary models of the environment: a relational structu...

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Literature Corpus work: d97c83c7-f7a9-5a99-9aea-4959cc615b88
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10131486/v1

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